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BEARING TEST [2 records]

Record 1 2016-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Concrete
CONT

Safe Load on Friction Piles. The load that can be carried by a single friction pile in a deposit of saturated clay can best be determined by means of a static load test. ... Since load tests on piles are relatively expensive, numerous efforts have been made to compute the safe load on friction piles on the basis of pile-driving records or laboratory tests.

Key term(s)
  • dead load test

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sortes de béton
CONT

Contrôle des pieux. [...] Essai statique de chargement. Cet essai [...] est le plus déterminant, car il fixe à la fois la capacité de portance du pieu et les performances du sol, mais nécessite des moyens importants et est relativement coûteux [...]. Il est recommandé d'en exécuter au moins un dans le cas d'un ensemble de pieux.

Spanish

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Record 2 1987-05-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Road Construction
  • Airport Runways and Areas
CONT

Pits, open cuts, or both may be required for making inplace bearing tests, for the taking of undisturbed samples, for charting variable soil strata, etc. This type of supplemental soil investigation is recommended for situations which warrant a high degree of accuracy or when in situ conditions are complex and require extensive investigation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Construction des voies de circulation
  • Pistes et aires d'aéroport

Spanish

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